Dream team collaborators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (This is the End, Future Man, Preacher) join forces once again for a hilarious, cameo-stuffed celebration (or is it takedown?) of the movie studio system in Apple TV's deliciously perfect The Studio. Rogen stars as Matt, the new head of fictitious, controversially scattered Continental Studios. Under his … Continue reading SXSW 2025: The Studio
Film Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
★★★★★ In the thirty-six years that have passed since the release of 1988's masterful dark comedy/horror flick Beetlejuice, not only has the cinema landscape changed entirely, but so has director Tim Burton's filmmaking style and technique. How would a decades-later sequel even work, considering the majority of those containing a massive gap between entries almost … Continue reading Film Review: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Film Review: Pain Hustlers
★★★ The opioid epidemic has been covered cinematically to the point of overexposure, so what more could a new Netflix drama really add to the conversation? Pain Hustlers aims to tell a different story, shifting focus from the victims of the crisis to the greedy pharmaceutical companies responsible in the first place. Morally grey and … Continue reading Film Review: Pain Hustlers